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.

There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

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

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.