"I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

"A good writer is not, as it is sometimes thought, a man who has an idea, but one who is possessed by an idea."

"France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of an idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves of Massachusetts and the cherry blossoms of Washington, and…"

"I am not a great man, but I have a great ambition."

"I believe in the power of words. I believe that words can change the world."