"A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests"

"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave"

"But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem"

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one"

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

"When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent"

"The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging"

"There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain"

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks"

"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government"

"As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy"