"We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling"

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in"

"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"

"Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more"

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity"

"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society"

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life"

"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy"