I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

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'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.

The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.

Those who will work hard will succeed, While those shop choose to slack at their work will be in need.

...please don’t throw any more rocks at the barrier keeping the demonic hordes of the void from pouring over the world.

By attuning your breathing, you can become one with the natural rhythm of life that flows through you all the time.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.

We pay far too much attention to externals.

When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.