The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

The world only remembers the winners.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.

People need to have compassion for others.

Your words should be so strong that they affect every your intuition so that you can recognize what is real and heart.

I think America, really, is over.

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do the same. Everybody has one.

People are mean to each other.

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.