Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

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

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Food should be fun.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

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.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.