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.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn't have to work. It's such a nice - and rare - treat!

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

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

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

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

It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.