The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.