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

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

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.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

United we stand, divided we fall.

I'm always going to love my father.

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

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

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.