What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

For 'Seabiscuit,' I interviewed 100 people I never met.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.