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.

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

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.

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

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.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.