Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident

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

Details create the big picture.

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

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