"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like a ham and egg breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

"Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die."

"A well behaved woman rarely makes history."

"Those who give up freedoms for safety deserve neither."

"Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve."

"One man with courage makes a majority."

"America has been attacked not for what it has done wrong, but for what it has done right, and for being the hope of the world. If democracies do not unite to defend themselves, our world will become as tragically unrecognisable as the New York skyline."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Rationalizing is the bringing of ideals down to the level of one's conduct. Repentance is the bringing of one's conduct up to the level of one's ideals."

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decay and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than is own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

"I believe that people would be alive today if there was a death penalty."

"Though the edifice of the World Trade Centre, symbol of American prosperity, has fallen, the United States will stand. No catastrophe forged by man can fell that great nation of ideas and of liberty built on the hopes and freedoms of generations of freedom-seekers."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear...not absence of fear."

"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. Love like you've never been hurt."

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."