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.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

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

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

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

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

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

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

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

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Less is more.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

I call architecture frozen music.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.