Had he lived, what a different world it could have been, his loyalists say. But it's also possible his dark side could have overtaken him, ... It might have been a terrible mess if [all the stories] had come out, catastrophic.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

He was just beginning to find his vocation and to escape from the orbit of his father,