The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

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.

What worries you, masters you.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

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

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

There is nothing permanent except change.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

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

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.