The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.