Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.
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.
I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose. . . There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
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.
. . . fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.
I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.
The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).
Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.