If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

We are here to help one another along life's journey.

Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.

Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.

It comes in pints?

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

It amazes me how little common curtesy people can show when their tested.

Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.