Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.
Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.
I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.
People shouldn’t be ashamed of their bodies. . . especially women.
I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies