As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.

I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

To connect with people, be yourself, at your best.

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.