I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.