Discover the Power of Words

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Form follows function.

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

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

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

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

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

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

My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

There is no substitute for victory.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

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.

Example is leadership.

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.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.