In the most deeply significant of the legends concerning Jesus, we are told how the devil took him up into a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

But we might be talking about a significant percentage of parents that have questions about vaccines – and we need to answer them. We need to give them the scientifically based, credible answer

I was pleased my dad communicated in Arabic smoothly – his dad sent him to take Arabic from a sheik – and we had Arab companions. His assignment of understanding the Arabs – governmental issues as well as verse – was significant; he accepted it as employment.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell’s discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

Some of the most significant discoveries in modern science owe their origin to the imagination of men who had neither accurate knowledge nor exact instruments to demonstrate their beliefs.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant of an impression by remaining silent.

If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition – even when it seems to be doing a little good – we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.

We changed pop culture on all levels. Not just music. We changed it on TV. In movies. On radio. Everything.

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant – and the success will naturally follow

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.