We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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!

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.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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

To be is to do.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Form follows function.