“Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.”

“Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.”

“At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.”

“I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley”

“James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.”

“Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”

“Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. Teddy White”

“I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.”

“He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past...”

“You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself aliv...”

“Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.”