The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

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

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Work alone is noble.

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

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.