The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

There are times when the way has to pass through sufferings to cleanse ourselves from the burden of the past.

Don’t become so impatient that you end up moving before your time & miss open doors & new opportunities. Let God direct your steps.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.