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

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.

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

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

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.

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.

When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Nutrition trumps genes.