Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.

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?

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

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.

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

To understand why, submit and apply.

I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases I do know the answers, but in many others I don't know and don't want to know.

It is the customer that pays the wages

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

You are a God Act like one!