American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.