Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

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

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

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

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

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

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

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.