"AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started."

"For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda."

"With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership."

"Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home."

"The only limit to human potential is the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"Things don't have to change the world to be important."

"Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'"