Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

[But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics.] When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, ... Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.