Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

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.

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

We are what we believe we are.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

To be is to do.

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

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

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.