Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.