The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.

Extend your commitment to your family members. Have respect for elders and be nice to them.they are your soft pillow

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

There is but one reliance.

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

Christmas is here, Merry old Christmas, Gift-bearing Christmas, Day of grand memories, King of the year!