In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.
I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. . . I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.
We can what-if ourselves to death. . . But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have. . . is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.
As a journalist, the details always tell the story.