We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Example is leadership.

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

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

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

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

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

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

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

I admire my father greatly.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

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 like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?