I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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 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.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

I do not seek. I find.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

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

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.