Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
Americans like warm characters. It's why, no matter what he did in the early days, they kind of resonated to Bill Clinton because he seems like a guy that you could sit down and have a burger and a beer with. It's even why, despite the fact that he sometimes seemed to be not firing on all cylinders, lots of them still like George W. Bush - because he seemed like the kind of guy you could have a burger and a beer with.
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
In the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever.
. . . and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.