American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.