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

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

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.

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

We don’t vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them.

Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.

We all need grace in the face of each other.

I challenge the challenges. I like to face the problems. I don't run away from them. Whatever loss I have to face it, I face it.

More young people need to come to the theatre in general.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.