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.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Success is dependent on effort.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

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

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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