Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

The best way out is always through.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

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

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Life is a progress, and not a station.