People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.