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

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

What worries you, masters you.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.