"The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player."

“What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh. For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard - The treble of heaven's harmony. These things he plants who plants a tree.”

Source : Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Heart Of The Tree”

“It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.”

Source : "Federal judge rules Day of Prayer unconstitutional". www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

“Russians absolutely not trying to meddle with the election of Donald Trump. I discussed that with the president-elect. Those conversations never happened. I hear people saying it like it's a fact on television. That is just not only inaccurate and false, but it's dangerous and it does undermine our democracy.”

“She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.”

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”

“Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.”

“uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted. ... they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.”

“There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.”

Source : "The Absolute at Large". Book by Karel Capek, 1922.