It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Pop music will never be low brow.

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

The problem with a Separation Theology is that it produces a Separation Cosmology, a way of looking at all of life that says that everything is separate from everything else.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen who you are. Then there is nothing left except to share your being with others.

I like to date schoolteachers. If you do something wrong, they make you do it over again.

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!