As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

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.

Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

In our dreams we are always young.

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

What one man can think, another man can do.

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

Do you believe in reincarnation?...I was wondering why some connections seem so easy, so natural, as if they'd already been made and are getting picked up again.

The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.

I always ask my dad why wasn't I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.