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.

I'm thankful for every moment.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

When my marriage broke up... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.