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.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I do not seek. I find.

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.