What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

It is your human environment that makes climate

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

We have the best government that money can buy.