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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
You're never a loser until you quit trying.
I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Details create the big picture.
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.