Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.