Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Clarity affords focus.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

He that is jealous is not in love.