A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

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.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

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

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

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

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.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.