It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.