James Freeman Clarke

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

The atheist has no hope.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.