So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

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

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

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.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

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

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

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.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

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.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

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.

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

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

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

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.