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.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

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.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

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.

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