One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

Milan Kundera

The church exists to train its member through the practice of the presence of God to be servants of others, to the end that Christlikeness may become common property.

William Adams Brown

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

Cathy McMorris

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

King Abdullah II

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

J. K. Rowling

You must change in order to survive.

Pearl Bailey

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Benjamin Disraeli

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.

Janet Napolitano

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action,

S. I. Hayakawa

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul -His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

Farid Attar