We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

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

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.