Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Common sense is not so common.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

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.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

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

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

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

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.