Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

The journey Is No Fun, If You Know Where your Going.

Look, ” Liam said, “sometimes being a hero isn’t about getting the glory. It’s about doing what needs to be done.

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

Time doesn't flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up.

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.

Like a stone That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day.