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.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

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

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

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.