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

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.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

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.

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

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

What worries you, masters you.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.

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.