On the BBC website there is a poll for the most Moving Words quoted in English for all time. The poll is here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/movingwords/index.shtm...

The results so far are:

Results so far:
1: Woody Allen: To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition
(5%)
2: Dalai Lama: You can't shake hands with a clenched fist
(8%)
3: Sir Isaac Newton: If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants
(4%)
4: Saint Augustine: Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
(11%)
5: Nelson Mandela: If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart
(13%)
6: Lao Tzu: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
(21%)
7: US Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
(4%)
8: William Shakespeare - As You Like It: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.
(6%)
9: Gospel of Luke, 6.31: And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise
(7%)
10: Mahatma Gandhi: An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind (19%)

Let's not let Lao Tzu or Gandhi be first, while the Declaration of Independence and Newton are last.

Scott