Quotes about Values

I am busy because I am lazy. I indolently let others decide what I will do instead of resolutely deciding myself. It was a favorite theme of C. S. Lewis that only lazy people work hard. By lazily abdicating the essential work of deciding and directing, establishing values and setting goals, other people do it for us.

People who are forever breaking the rules, trying other roads, attempting to create their own system of values and truth from scratch, spend most of their time calling up someone to get them out of trouble and help repair the damage, and then ask the silly question "What went wrong?" As H. H. Farmer said, "If you go against the grain of the universe you get splinters.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.

When I go back to Louisiana, I want to be the same person that my friends remember me as. It's so important to me.

I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

I want to improve as a football player, but even more importantly, I really want to improve as a person.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

We have become a throwaway society. Instead of honoring and preserving our past, we tear it down, shove it aside, and just go on our merry way. Well, I won't have it. We have to stand firm for what we believe in. Only in the most dire circumstances should a structure of historical significance be demolished.