...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

The secretiveness. The stealth. Those were obviously the aspects of cocaine use I was addicted to.

It’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.

People who say that they can't appreciate a great wine generally haven't tasted one

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.