His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

- Laura Hillenbrand

In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column …

- Laura Hillenbrand

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only ch…

- Laura Hillenbrand

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are …

- Laura Hillenbrand

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only whe…

- Laura Hillenbrand

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to s…

- Laura Hillenbrand

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

- Laura Hillenbrand

... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

- Laura Hillenbrand

My work was entirely nonfiction.

- Laura Hillenbrand