If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

The sea, no matter how endless, depends on rivers.

You can have the most expensive clothes and still lack style

To look like you are a real sports fan, when there is a game on TV just yell, Oh, come on! every now and then at the TV.

Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.

This is very ambitious, but I don't care. I'm just gonna go ahead and find Amelia Earhart. Every day that goes by, I just fear the worst for her.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.