The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Even his own speeches bored him.

Spirituality [Nischay] means complete truth and worldly interactions means truth to a certain extent.

Don't compete with other girls, complete goals.

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have

If there isn't a parking space out front or I can't see my car from the window, we're eating somewhere else.

No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.

The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.

Sometimes you have to follow your uncommon sense.

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.