"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it." ― Robert Caro Topic(s): Beauty More From Robert Caro "If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill – the human cost of public works. That’s what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people." "When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do." "There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson – real lows. And it’s never come back. It’s a trend that, if you’re liberal, is really discouraging." More In Beauty "I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside."― Whitney Houston "When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist."― Akhenaton "The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."― Clifford Geertz