He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.

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.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

How you start your day is how you live your day.

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.