The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

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

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.