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

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.

Depression is a phobia of happiness.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

This wasn't a person, Zuzana thought, this was greed wearing skin.

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind, /Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, /Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

I'm sure the next time Piers Morgan asks me to host his show again I will ask President Obama to be my guest.

When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is me

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.