a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
James A. MichenerI've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration.
James A. MichenerI think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.
James A. MichenerI am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.
James A. Michener