This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.

I haven't ridden a bike in a while because I'm so scared I'll get hit and die.

You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And at the same time, I think, I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?