Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.
They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.
Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.
Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.
I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.
What we do at LSU is to develop players and make them better.
Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world.