We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

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

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

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.