Famous and Inspiring Quotations

I have decided to add quotations to my 2007 Blog. I'm not sure how often I'll change them on the blog itself but I intend to keep the past, present, and some future quotations here. I have catagorized them alphabetically by the person who normally given credit for the quotation. Send any corrections to me. I've obtained them from a number of different sources and unless I find out differently I'm assuming they are not under copyright.

• Maya Angelou (b.1928): A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
• Francis of Assisi (1182-1226): Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
• Theresa of Calcutta (1910-1997): I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955): In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
• Rene DesCartes (1596-1650): What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
• Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969): Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
• Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948): What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
• Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972): A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
• Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826): I cannot live without books.
• John Paul II (1920-2005): Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
• John F. Kennedy (1917-1963): Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
• Martin Luther King (1929-1968): In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.
• Thomas Merton (1915-1968): The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
• Barack Obama (b.1961): No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945): The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
• Blaise Pascal (1623-1662): In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
• Paul VI (1897-1978): If you want peace, work for justice
• The Talmud: Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
• George Washington (1732-1799): Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
• Paul Wellstone (1944-2002): We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.
• Robin Williams (b.1951): Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
• Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924): In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.