He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.