I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn't have to work. It's such a nice - and rare - treat!

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

I admire my father greatly.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

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

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.