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

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

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.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

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

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.