Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

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.

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

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

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

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.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'