Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Even his own speeches bored him.

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

True love makes you sleep and dream. But loud reality wakes you up

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad.

We change and it's uncomfortable. We flow for a time and then it's awkward.

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.