Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant…

We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.

Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

Hopefully Andy Carroll has only tweeted his hamstring.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.