Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

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.

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.

Shine your light at all times

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

A lot of times, you beat a person who beat a person who can beat you. I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

London and Fog! When these two come together, it is time to be a writer!

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

Just do what you're supposed to.