When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be tender.

A bee does not need to follow you to give you honey: you follow it. Become a person of value and you too won't have to beg anyone to follow you.

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

Also while I was at Missouri, I was elected president of the Burall Bible Class—a huge class made up of students from both Missouri and Stephens College. Growing up, I had always gone to church and Sunday school every Sunday; it was an important part of my life. I don't know that I was that religious, per se, but I always felt like the church was important.