We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.