Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.

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.

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.

My double drags his coffin, humble slave, I, at least, am real, though changed to flesh.Far-off, I build me a church no hand can shape("Winter Sonnets: III")

He had a face like a benediction.

I have a lot of girlfriends who are struggling out there to find good men.

Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.

There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is