Morality is not a spectator sport.

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.

We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion under the control of reason.

Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

The present is elastic to embrace infinity.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Everything is in place to have a peaceful Games.

We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.

I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.