His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult but to the adult in the child.

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

I think there is a niche for every market.

Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherfucker is still here.