"Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world."

"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"

"Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world."

"The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society."

"I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them."

"I do not like assassins, or men of low character."

"My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?"

"The test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."