Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Barack Obama

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Robert E. Lee

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

C.S. Lewis

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

E. M. Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman it would be, I think, an American cow.

William Lyon Phelps

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Audrey Hepburn

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

John Lennon

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Vicomte De Chateaubriand