Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.

If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Trust is the ultimate human currency.

Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.

I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.

Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.