Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. 

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Materialism and commercialisation are destroying the basic human nature.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. 

I can’t find time for busy people. I am as busy as they are!

My heart is very weary and sad and alone, For its dreams like the fluttering leaves have gone, And why should I say behind.