To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.

Be a true Heart, not a follower.

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.

I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.

As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no individual's vote has ever tipped the balance in a presidential election.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.