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

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

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.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.