Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

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.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

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.