No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

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 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.

Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

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.