We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position.

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again.

Be good to yourself. You deserve goodness.

Survival feels like cowardice.

Face tomorrow tomorrow's not yesterday

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.