Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.

We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

We must make working life more human.

… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

...bleak territory of the heart.

No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.