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.

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

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

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

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

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

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