We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

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.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

The principle part of faith is patience.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.