"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing."

"You can never plan the future by the past."

"All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities."

"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice."

"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."

"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."

"Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding."

"On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger."