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

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.

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

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'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.

The Democratic Party of the USA would greatly appreciate your cooperation with re-installing Mr & Mrs Pinocchio into the White House.

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

We have raised an issue that is already in the Bolivian constitution, that water is a universal human right. And we asked the United Nations to recognize water as a human right.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.