Now even reformers needed political machines.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Politics is motion." John Sears

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

Every great dream begins with a perspective

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!

Who do you love more, your thoughts or God?

I never thought of myself as a writer but the simplest thing seemed to be to put a piece of paper in the roller and start typing.

It's funny what they say about men in uniform - how people think women just can't resist 'em. Fact is, I think we're just pleased to see a man groomed, bathed, and wearing clothes that fit him.

If I leave Chelsea, I would be unprofessional ,just because I am not playing does not mean that I don't love Chelsea. I am not leaving.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.