Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I can, therefore I am.

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

I have a Father's Day every day.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.