"It is a fine thing to have..." - Quote by Lou Holtz

“We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.”

“I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf.”

“The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.”

“Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.”

“No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.”

“When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.”

“English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.”

“A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.”

“Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.”