"The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior."

“Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

“I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'”

“We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.”

“American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.”

Source : "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

“I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.”

“We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.”

Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

“I think we just have to become more consistent.”

Source : Source: ftw.usatoday.com

“Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”

Source : J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com