Our Quotes

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Our intention creates our reality.

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

This is our world, and we must make the best of it.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.