“Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.”

The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

True invective requires great imagination.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Happiness is speechless.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.

I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.

When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.

I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn’t changed.

If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.