Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

As governor when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner it's really like making a large chicken.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Dinner was made for eating not for talking.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

See winners embrace hard work.