Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.