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

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.

Sometimes the worst beatings we endure are never the physical kind.

Your life is your song, sing it loud!

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.

Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.