American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....