He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny.

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.

How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY.

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago, ' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh d—''And that was with a coffee machine.' He waited.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.

In my culture we just say f**k off.

A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal.

I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.