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

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

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.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.