I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

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.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.