I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Architecture is invention.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

May you live all the days of your life.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.