Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

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

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.

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.

The charm of horror only tempts the strong

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Elegance is refusal.

Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.

If we drop money, we are usually very sad if the money is big. But for example, if we drop 310 dollars, we can relax, because this is very small in the 3-adics.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

What is the right exchange rate at one point is not necessarily the right exchange rate at another.

Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

Waste is only waste if we waste it.