"Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively"

"The tiger is a magnificent creature and one that is threatened by human activities on all fronts. It is up to us to protect this iconic species and ensure that it has a future in the wild"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future"

"Action conquers fear"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

"The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer"

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"