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.

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

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.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

Knowing beauty is not what can be described but felt, upon looking at something beautiful.

Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

before speaking, notice what motivates your words.