As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Success is dependent on effort.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

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

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

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

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.