The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

Every boy dreams of serving in the Kingsguard.

Confront somebody with an issue before it becomes a conflict. Confrontation is not all bad.

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Social media is not owned by marketing.

Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.