Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.