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

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.

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

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.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.