One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they don’t necessarily take that attitude. They feel they’re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.