America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Blaise Pascal

I leave out the parts that people skip.

Elmore Leonard

We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?

Rutherford Platt

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Havelock Ellis

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Steve Jobs

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

William Shatner

Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.

Billy Graham

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

Julie Walters

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

Raul Armesto

This the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to the first.

William Shakespeare

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart