I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

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.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

I'm thankful for every moment.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.