Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

Only the favor of God can help us find fulfillment as we reveal Jesus Christ to this world.

Solving crimes is like following a spider web. Everything is connected in some way. It's just figuring out where things intersect so I can find the spider in the middle.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.

Tomorrow is a new beginning. Embrace the light of a new day, for you have a fresh chance to begin again, to make life beautiful.

Who told you I was a musician?

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?

You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.