Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her.

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.