Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

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

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

What worries you, masters you.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

He that is jealous is not in love.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.