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

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Architecture is invention.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.