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

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Work alone is noble.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

If youth knew; if age could.

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.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

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

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

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

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.