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

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.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

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.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

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