My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

I'll have another beer. I'm not driving.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards but because they are men.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.