Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

I am but an architectural composer.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

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.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.