Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

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!

Architecture is invention.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

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.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind.