If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.