Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Make friends with the angels who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them constantly praise them and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it even as a temporary measure is to betray it.

Maya Angelou the famous African American poet historian and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.