"All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow."

“The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.”

“Your choice of armor was your intellect.”

“I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.”

“I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be another war. It's what I do.”

Source : "Rick Atkinson talks 'The Guns at Last Light'". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.

“Is an artist much more than a beggar?”

Source : Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Eva Weissweiler, Hildegard Fritsch, Ronald L. Crawford (1994). “The complete correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann”, Peter Lang Pub Inc

“A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.”

“I trust pictures, but no pictures made in my world - because I know what goes on.”

“My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently, this executive order is a singularly ineffective - in legal parlance, it would be called under-inclusive - form of a Muslim ban.”

Source : "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". Interview with James Downie, www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.