"In the Green Zone in Iraq you have your radio, you have your food, you have your own electricity, your own toilets. Everything is a sealed American reality overlaid on top of an infrastructure that is crumbling."

“Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.”

“It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.”

“We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.”

“My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.”

“How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.”

Source : Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.178

“I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

Source : "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, (Chapter XI), 1901.

“Life is not measured by the time we live.”

Source : George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.98

“I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.”

Source : "Dems battle over Confederate flag". Des Moines Register Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 2, 2003.