Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

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

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

So little done, so much to do.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.