I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The making of an American begins at that point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.