"If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment."

“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”

“The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.”

“I'm not sure if our friendship is strong enough to survive into next year when we’re away at college. But. We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected. So I have to hope for us. All I can do is hope.”

“I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.”

“What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or editors or agents or even writers. We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.”

“The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.”

Source : "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War". Book by Drew Gilpin Faust, 2008.

“You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.”

“There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force”

Source : "John Keegan: Soldiers and Pacifists Share the Same Qualities" by Russ Wellen, fpif.org. February 13, 2013.