Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.

Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.

Weber, ... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.

Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.

The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

You never really want anything you can easily have.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Still enmeshed from the knees down, Vayl flopped off the cabinet before we realized he needed a hand down, falling fast and hard like a penguin who hasn't bought the whole flightless scenario.

Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.