It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Dag Hammarskjold

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.

Bruce Springsteen

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

Arlen Specter

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone, 'Commentarie

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Bible

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

George Herbert Palmer

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Louis Gerstner

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Thomas Carlyle

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

Ferguson Jenkins

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Norman Vincent Peale

Only when your intent and actions are in alignment can you create the reality you desire.

Steve Maraboli