God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who hates can hardly be delicate in doing Justice, say to his neighbor's love, to his neighbor's predilections and peculiarities. It is hard enough to be just to our friends; and how shall our enemies fare with us?

I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.

Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

The White Plume of Navarre.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...