The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.

Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

I have never known anyone to accept Christ's redemption and later regret it.

I'm not opposed to the use of force.

When there is no place that you have decided to call your own, then no matter where you go, you are always heading home.

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.