To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

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

Faith is a passionate intuition.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

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

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.