No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.'
No biographical subject is ever on hold with the orthodontist. If there's a dry spell, it's your job to curtail or eliminate it.
You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.
But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you
The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.
Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
Ideas" in politics are often intuition fancy dress.
Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.
My master's degree was in English literature.
