Time is valuable; people are busy.

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.

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

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.

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...

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?