Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

There is no substitute for victory.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.