My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Work alone is noble.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.

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

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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

Never mistake motion for action.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.