Hagman, Larry, 239Hahn, Emily “Mickey,” 181Halas, George, 220Hale, Edward Everett, 68Haley, Alex, 9Halford, Sir Henry, 29Hamilton, Cathy, 29Hammarskjöld, Dag, 48–49Hanlon, Robert J., 96Hannah, John, 295–96Hansberry, Lorraine, 49Harragan, Betty Lehan, 141Harrelson, Woody, 296Harris, Michael, 68Harris, Sydney J., 68Hart, Johnny, 30Hauri, Peter, 314–15Hayden, Carl, 239Heimel, Cynthia, 142, 172, 181Heinlein, Robert A., 30, 96–97, 111–12, 128, 158, 181, 276, 347–48Heinrichs, Jay, 315Heller, Robert, 256Hemingway, Ernest, 36–38, 158, 328, 348Henson, Jim, 32–33Hepburn, Audrey, 142Herbert, Bob, 142Herbert, James, 112Herbst, Sharon Tyler, 278Herford, Oliver, 301Herlihy, Kerry, 181–82Hewlett, William, 329Heywood, John, 88Higgins, George V., 348Hill, Linda, 142Hillel, 89Hipparchus, 158–59Hobbs, Chantel, 276Hock, Dee W., 256–57Holmes, John Andrew, 201Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 339–40, 341Holtz, Lou, 218, 220–21Home Circle, The, 192Homer, Karen, 142–43Hoover, Herbert, 239–40Hopkins, Lemuel, 98Hopkins, Sam “Lightnin’,” 69Horace, 60, 65Horne, Lena, 1Hornung, Paul, 201Horowitz, Vladimir, 49Houston, Ruth, 112, 182Howard, Tracie, 278Howe, Edgar Watson, 201Howell, James, 90Hubbard, Elbert, 95Hubbard, Frank McKinney “Kin,” 30Hughes, Langston, 329Hull, Cordell, 329Humphrey, Hubert H., 49, 240Humphries, Barry, 28Hunt, Freeman, 128Hunt, H. L., 257Hunt, L. P., 329Hutcherson, Hilda, 182Hutchinson, Fred, 221Hutchinson, Phoebe, 201–2Hutton, Lauren, 83Huxley, Aldous, 81
Iaquinto, Anthony, 333Irish proverbs, 332, 335Italian proverbs, 184, 332Ivester, Douglas, 257
Jackson, Gordon S., 278Jackson, Holbrook, 349Jackson, Jesse, 48Jackson, Robyn Renee, 278Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall,” 98, 159Japanese proverb, 204Jefferies, Richard, 143Jefferson, Thomas, 230, 257, 315Jerome, St., 88Jerrold, Douglas, 143Jobs, Steve, 119–22Johnson, Barbara, 159–60Johnson, F. Ross, 257–58Johnson, Kimberly, 49Johnson, Lyndon B., 128, 236, 240Johnson, Matthew A., 143Johnson, Robert W., 258Johnson, Spencer, 251John XXIII, Pope, 48Jolie, Angelina, 300–301Jordan, Michael, 221Joubert, Joseph, 49, 160, 323, 349
Kahane, Rabbi Meir, 277Kahaney, Cory, 202Kami, Michael J., 115Kaputa, Catherine, 258Karan, Donna, 83Keillor, Garrison, 349Keitel, Harvey, 202Kelleher, Herb, 258Keller, Helen, 69Kempis, Thomas à, 69Kennedy, John F., 14, 56, 91Kennedy, Joseph P., 258Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald, 143–44Kessler, Merle, 185Kidd, Betty, 102–3Kidman, Nicole, 112Kiechell, Walter, III, 144King, Alan, 30King, Florence, 30King, Martin Luther, Jr., 50, 112, 144King, Patricia, 278Kington, Miles, 315Kipling, Rudyard, 202Kirchheimer, Sid, 278Kissinger, Henry, 258Kita, Joe, 62–63, 183, 203, 259Kite, Tom, 221Kliban, B., 279Koch, Edward, 129, 240Koestler, Arthur, 349Kollmann, Dana, 279Korda, Michael, 50, 160Kotter, John P., 112–13Krantzler, Mel, 203Kreps, E. H., 329–30Krug, Critchfield, 40Krzyzewski, Mike, 222
La Bruyère, Jean de, 167La Fontaine, Jean de, 330Lagarde, Christine, 259Lambuth, David, 349L’Amour, Louis, 69, 113Landers, Ann, 160, 193–94La Rochefoucauld, François de, 324Lasorda, Tommy, 90Lass, Abraham, 347Lathrop, George Parsons, 50Latin proverbs, 205, 331Lauder, Estée, 330Lavater, Johann Kaspar, 69, 160Laver, Rod, 222Lawrence, D. H., 323, 349–50Lear, Amanda, 279Lebowitz, Fran, 30, 91, 203Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy, 69, 330Lederer, Richard, 50Lee, Harper, 135–36Lee, Robert E., 161, 203Lehmann, Rosamond, 203Lehr, Lew, 30Leifer, Carol, 31, 161, 183, 203Lemire, Tim, 144Lenclos, Anne (Ninon de Lenclos), 177Leno, Jay, 70Leonard, Elmore, 350Leonard, Joseph, 31Levenson, Sam, 161Lewellyn, Daisy, 279Lewis, C. S., 350Lichtenberg, G. C., 70Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, 239Lieberman, David J., 113, 162, 279Lillie, Beatrice, 31Lincoln, Abraham, 70, 89, 240Linde, Shirley, 314–15Lindsay, Vachel, 144Lionni, Leo, 102–4Lish, Gordon, 351Little, Royal, 259Livermore, Jesse L., 259Livingston, Gordon, 279–80Llewelyn, Desmond, 296Lloyd, George, 296Loewy, Raymond, 260Lomasney, Martin M., 232Lombardi, Vince, 222Long, Earl, 232Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 324Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 129Lopez, Nancy, 223Lorimer, George Horace, 260Lowell, James Russell, 67–68Lucas, Stephen, 106Lyall, Charles J. C., 32Lynch, Peter, 250
MacArthur, Douglas A., 98, 240Mackay, Harvey B., 39, 113, 144, 260–61, 315–16MacLaine, Shirley, 129Madan, Geoffrey, 162Maggio, Rosalie, 63Mahoney, David, 59Mamet, David, 84Mancini, Chris, 144Mandino, Og, 50, 70–71Mansfield, Mike, 240Marceau, Marcel, 316Marlette, Doug, 32, 129Marquis, Don, 203–4Marr, Dave, 223Martin, Billy, 223–24, 227Martin, Jenny Salvini, 223Martin, Paul Raymond, 351Martin, Steve, 32Marx, Groucho, 32Maslow, Abraham H., 114Maynard, Joyce, 129McCarthy, Andrew, 129McCarthy, Eugene, 241McCormack, Mark H., 114, 261, 276McCrum, Robert, 241McGraw, “Dr. Phil,” 65, 145McKenna, David L., 162, 204, 280, 351McManus, Patrick F., 280Mead, Margaret, 8Melville, Herman, 330Menander, 3Mencken, H. L., 12, 106, 114, 136–37, 306–7Menzies, Robert G., 241Metzler, Paul, 224Michener, James A., 352Mickenberg, Risa, 183Milk, Harvey, 241Miller, Arthur, 289Miller, Bryan, 25Miss Piggy (Jim Henson), 32, 33Mitchell, Margaret, 9Mizner, Addison, 33Monaghan, Liz Scott, 278Montana, Gladiola, 280Montessori, Maria, 199Moore, Julianne, 145Moran, Richard A., 114, 261–62Morgan, Joe, 224Morgan, J. P., 330Morgan, Julia, 15–16Morgenstern, Julie, 280–81Morrow, Lance, 163Mowat, Farley, 269–70Moyers, Bill, 238Mueller, Gene, 281Muggeridge, Malcolm, 331Mull, Martin, 118Murrow, Edward R., 71Mydland, Brent, 129–30Mynall, Alan, 316
Nance, W. A. “Dub,” 163Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte), 94Nash, Ogden, 71, 316Nastasi, Michael, 114, 281Nathan, George Jean, 115, 163–64Neame, Ronald, 297Neill, A. S., 10Nelms, Cynthia, 25Nelson, Ben, 115Neuharth, Al, 262Nicholson, Jack, 297Nicholson, Nancy, 145Nixon, Richard, 229–30Noll, Chuck, 224Noonan, Peggy, 352Norwegian proverb, 205Novak, William, 183–84Novello, Don, 305N. W. Ayer & Son, 101–2Nye, Bill (“Not the Science Guy”), 24
O’Connor, Anahad, 281O’Connor, Patricia T., 316, 352Ogilvy, David M., 262–63Olsson, Peter, 130O’Malley, Austin, 331Onassis, Aristotle, 184O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” 242Orben, Robert, 33O’Rourke, P. J., 22–24, 130, 145, 184, 316–17Orr, Alice, 115, 352Orwell, George, 318, 340–41Ovid, 184–85
Packouz, Kalman, 317Paddleford, Clementine, 331Pagter, Carl R., 276Paige, Leroy “Satchel,” 51, 98–99, 224Palmer, Samuel, 88Pankhurst, Christabel, 242Paretsky, Sara, 164Parker, Brent, 30Parker, Joseph, 331Parker, Pat, 317Parker, Tom, 281Pascal, Blaise, 317Pasteur, Louis, 72Patinkin, Mark, 332Patterson, Grove, 38–39Patton, George S., 51, 98, 130, 263Pavlov, Ivan, 51Peale, Norman Vincent, 38–39, 51–52, 72, 145–46Pearson, Ridley, 281Penick, Harvey, 225Penn, William, 204Phelps, William Lyon, 164Pitino, Rick, 225Plath, Sylvia, 281Porter, Katherine Anne, 305Post, Emily, 60–61, 164Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 72Powell, Colin, 52, 60Prescott, William, 5Preston, Robert, 298Price, Wesley, 353Pushkin, Alexander, 324Puzo, Mario, 9, 289–90, 353
Quadracci, Harry, 263–64Quigley, Anita, 205Quinn, Jane Bryant, 72–73
Raines, Shirley, 146Raleigh, Sir Walter, 131Rand, Ayn, 13, 53Reagan, Nancy, 242Reardon, Kate, 131Redford, Robert, 298Reeves, Don, 83Renkel, Ruth, 336Restak, Richard, 59Restivo, Joe, 33Rice, Grantland, 327Rich, Ronda, 164Richter, Jean Paul, 205, 353Rickey, Branch, 223, 225Ridley, Dennis, 33Rimmer, Christine, 131Ritz, César, 264Rivera, Karisa, 205Rivers, Joan, 34, 126, 146, 205, 298Rivers, Melissa, 205–6Roaring Lion (Rafael de Leon), 206Robbins, Anthony, 146Robbins, Harold, 281–82Rockefeller, John D., 53Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 259Rockefeller, Nelson, 243Rogers, Will, 243Rohn, Jim, 73Romer, Paul, 56Rooney, Andy, 131Roos, Stephen, 282Roosevelt, Eleanor, 73, 165Roosevelt, Franklin D., 115, 233Roosevelt, Theodore, 131–32, 146, 243Rose, Billy, 250Rosenblatt, Roger, 73–74Ross, David, 282Ross, Edward N., 282Ross, Joel E., 115Rostand, Jean, 206Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 206–7Rove, Karl, 243–44Rowbottom, Robert, 336Rowland, Helen, 132Rudner, Rita, 34Rudolph, Wilma, 105Ruff, Howard, 264–65Rushdie, Salman, 353–54Russell, Bertrand, 6, 309Russell, Charles Arthur, 53Russell, Mark, 34Russian proverb, 335Ruth, George Herman “Babe,” 225Ryan, Nolan, 225Ryan, Shannon, 34