To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

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

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

The best way out is always through.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

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

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

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.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.