Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do, " she would write seven decades later.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong

Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.

I think a goal is a goal and not all my goals are pretty.

The atheist has no hope.

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Don't get buried in the thick of thin things.

I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.