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.

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.