And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a messy human life without being ashamed of loving someone.

A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader’s mind with the ecstasy of joy.

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

I urge each of you to think seriously about the vision Dr. Daniel puts forth and think about what you can do to make it happen.

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.

I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

Let your soul and spirit fly.