It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.