A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

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.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

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

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

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