Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

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

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.