It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]

Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy’s culture. Read it and be proud of those who were on their own front lines of a cruel war.

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.

When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.

Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.