Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Even his own speeches bored him.

There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!

True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving.

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.