I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

Focus on the end, not the beginning- on the beginning not the end- The process proceeds in the inner dimension.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

The more you read, the eager you read many more.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound.

As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.