Quotes

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can

The tough-minded… respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

the mind never ceases in its restless rage for order.

It is the universal understanding of the human mind that God, the author of all things, is good.

A superhero who can do anything turns out to be no hero at all. He’s nothing specific, so he’s nothing. He has nothing to

“The vacuity of life,” Hester Thrale said, “had so struck upon the mind of Mr. Johnson that it became by repeated impression his favourite

Everything, for James, boiled down to the question of how to escape the enveloping fear that life was essentially meaningless—how to get out of

Truth in the world resides only in mathematical proofs and physics labs. Everywhere else, it’s really a matter of opinion, and if it manages

What saves is the willingness to learn from what you don’t know. That is faith in the possibility of human transformation. That is faith