The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

Sometimes people will find things that are wrong. Sometimes they will even find an approach that you took wrong. If you think you took the right approach, then you just absorb the criticism, but you don't change your mind.

If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated. Something doesn't just occur. It's not like a scientific event. It's a human event. So the dimensions of it will be seen differently by different people.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

What interested me most about the Kennedys was the family situation. Somehow, they had created this family that lasted over time, they had a sense of connection to one another. Especially now, when people are spread all over the country and they don't see grandparents and parents, this family bonded together.