Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.

I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.

Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.

Dwight Eisenhower was candid in private, but he was circumspect in public.

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water...

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Nurture you mind with great thoughts

The constitution is very clear as to how and when the president hands over power. He can only hand power over to an elected successor.

As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.

Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

The best thing that I think happened to me was I got the opportunity to have really good players and we were able to meet the demand of the competition. And I think that's what I value most.