If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.

The Holy Spirit never draws attention to Himself. He always points to and reveals Jesus.

Don't let their chaos distract you from your goals.

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word." "And you're a big-" "Tsk tsk," he interrupted. "No swearing in church.

There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger.

Never plant without a bucket of compost at your side.

Older, you know, is obviously relative. You're older if there's somebody younger than you in the room, and you're younger if there's someone older in the room.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

Yes, it is better to look from the window than not to look at all, but to look through the window cannot be compared to the windowless sky.