The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?

USC is the National Champion like Al Gore is the President of the United States.

Simply put, success in LSU football is essential for the success of Louisiana State University.

For next several years PSU can focus on rebuilding its athletic culture, not worrying about whether it's going to a bowl game.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

One is always greater than hundred because without one there is no hundred

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

Night clubs scare me. They're dark and they stink and they're dangerous and everybody's drunk.

Our debt to our men and women in uniform is eternal, always will be. To all of those who have served our nation, I say so strongly that I will never, ever let you down.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.

It is impossible to be saved without the help of the Most Blessed Virgin, because those who are not saved by the justice of God are saved by the intercession of Mary.

If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school.