Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

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

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

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

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

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