"And finally, a worldwide program of farm productivity and food distribution, similar to our country's "Food for Peace" program could, now, give every child the food he needs. But man does not live by bread alone, and the members of this organization are committed by the Charter to promote and respect human rights."

- John F. Kennedy, Final United Nations Address

"The chamber is celebrating an important milestone this week: your 70th anniversary. I remember the day you started."

-- Ronald Reagan

“Ugh, cell phone, why won’t you load my messages?”

Joe's a man who learned -- early on -- to treat every person he meets with respect and dignity, living by the words his parents taught him: "No one's better than you, Joe, but you're better than nobody." (Barack Obama)

JULIET: Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die. (Shakespeare)

"Climbing is a journey and not a destination. Men do not conquer mountains any more than a flea conquers an elephant by climbing up its back."

-- Beck Weathers, On Surviving Mount Everest

The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest. (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"My senior year, I received a telephone call from a gentleman by the name of Mr. Gil Brandt of the Dallas Cowboys. And he stated that the Cowboys was interested in drafting me, and I couldn't ignore it. I decided to attend the Cowboys training camp. That year, 1967, the Dallas Cowboys had 137 rookies in training camp. Gil Brandt was signing everybody that could walk. Only five made the team that year, and I was one of the five."-- Larry Rayfield Wright, Pro Football Hall of Fame Induction Address

I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. (JFK)

“I had to wait in the station for ten days – an eternity.” (Heart of Darkness)

"Remember this, ladies and gentlemen. It's an old phrase, basically anonymous -- that politicians are a lot like diapers: They should be changed frequently and for the same reason. Keep that in mind next time you vote. Good night."

-- delivered by Robin Williams (from the movie Man of the Year)

"Our men in uniform are like the college football players. While the struggle is impending, they are observing the rules of training that they may be fit to fight. But when the game has been won, the temptation to break training and make up for the restraints of the past months and years will be a mighty one."

-- John D. Rockefeller, Jr., War Campaign Address

"I look at this [university] as being in the form of a house: and the students are the foundation, and the teachers are the walls, and the roof itself is the school. And we know that if you have a weak foundation, the walls and the roof can't be supported. Therefore, it crumbles."

-- Jason Madison, Northwestern State University student, Student's Should Come First'Address

“Five-score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths—that all of us are created equal—is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall, just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone, to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth. (Barack Obama)