When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

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

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

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

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

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.

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

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