Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

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.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

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