The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn't have to work. It's such a nice - and rare - treat!

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Once you label me you negate me.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

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.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

We are what we believe we are.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.