A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

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.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.

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.

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

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.