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.

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

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

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Plan to make good choices.

Poetry is a never ending journey.

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.

I live to leave somebody with a positive experience when they've met me, and make someone smile for the day.

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

In any democratic country you have more than one view.

There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.

Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood. It made me strong, you wouldn't last that long.