I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
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.
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.
The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library. "
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.
In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.