There is no disinfectant like success.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.