What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Simon Cameron: “I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“all his life he had “endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
You can be enormously effective for a period of time, because it's almost like there's an engine in you that needs to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“I thereby learned the invaluable lesson that in the practical activities of life no man can render the highest service unless he… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
There is a sense of feeling larger than your own life when you're in some common mission together. You have to hope… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness.… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
One of the important qualities that I think is often overlooked is just energy. It's vitality, and sort of a life force… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a fact wrong… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Don’t hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you can't say,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
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