Thou Quotations | Page 4

The possible slowdown of illicit drug use among young people is encouraging, even though rates of use remain unacceptably high. All of us, especially parents and teachers, need to redouble our efforts

We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some of our presence there, refused to do it. So we've got to be very careful and thoughtful before we do anything.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Nothing is possible without love.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.