I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do, " she would write seven decades later.

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

Most of the bad situations I've encountered began with the best of intentions.

When we help others to live peacefully our life unknowingly becomes peaceful.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

You might be a redneck if you consider a good tan to be the back of your neck and the left arm below the shirt sleeve.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.