To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

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!

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

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

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.