Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.