Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

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!

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.