The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

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

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.

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.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

When my marriage broke up... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

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

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.