Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

That's all right, " she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine."Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism.

Tell me, what's the difference between tracking a wild beast and securing a husband?

You make the best out of it, you can. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be. It's what you make of it.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.

O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.