Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

If you believe...you will!

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

A man does not die for something which he himself does not believe in.

I like the idea of helping people help people.

Success is absolutely intoxicating. I've seen people behave in ways that seem very far from how they would behave normally.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.