"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins."

"At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'"

"The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former."

"Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream."