"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable."

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."

"The genius of play is that, in playing, we create imaginative new cognitive combinations. And in creating those novel combinations, we find what works."

"There you stand like a duck in a thunderstorm again - aren't you ever going to understand?"

"For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country."

"The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations."

"A camel never sees its own hump."

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so."

"The passions are the only orators that always persuade."

"...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth."

"Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?"

"States should have the right to enact... laws...particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live."