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

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

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

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

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.

May you live all the days of your life.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Success is dependent on effort.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

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

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

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.