Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Fairy tales are more than true.

Life is a game; so we should know very well how to play it.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

Their strength is their strength.

Friendship's full of dregs.