To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.