"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, not only important but right. He was a man of his time, and he had the defects of his time, as well as the virtues."

"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'm not a good person. I'm not a bad person. I'm just a person."

"Living in a small town is like living in a fishbowl."

"The very rich are different from you and me."