You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough."

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.

A true leader inspires and empowers others to hope more, dream more, do more, and live more.

We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

If the world does need to repopulate at some point, the announcing team of Rob Lowe and Sofia Vergara, I think, would make very pleasant children.

You can't trust machines. You can't trust people.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

He was in a slow-motion mood-one of my favorites, though it meant i'd be driven crazy before we were done.