Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Politics is motion." John Sears

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew

Now even reformers needed political machines.

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

Every time I pull somebody out of the bullpen, I believe he can do the job. I have to believe it. If he doesn't, hopefully he will do it the next time.

Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.

One single glance will conquer all descriptions.

He didn't slam the door, didn't rage, didn't weep, he simply left.

He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.

The idea I'd been toying with fully formed in my mind. "I'm plotting." "oh?" His mouth curved in a wicked grin. "Do Tell." Chapter 5 pg. 50