A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

Form follows function.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Details create the big picture.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.