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 critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

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

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

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.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.