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

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

The average healthy well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

For all its terrible faults in one sense America is still the last best hope of mankind because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage be a happy father.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house and I burst with happiness. And in their minds they were in this terrible domestic rut.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them by observation and by measuring electrical activity in the brain in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing and must therefore be treated with great caution.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.