William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

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.

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

No two moments are identical in a conscious being

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

I said about Van Jones . Be careful. This guy is extraordinarily dangerous and he is smart.

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.

Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.