I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.

Music itself has taught me never to underestimate a mistake, for, in the midst of all, it’s often in that mistake where the realm of the unexpected creation is hidden.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray pray thyself in me.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product, ... It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.