Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

Am I not a man and brother?

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

If you want to avoid emotional mediocrity, be on time for every present moment.

People will try to break you, hate you, ignore youBut if you accept them with love, nothing will touch you.

I prefer noodles when they're raw, they taste just as good, but reward you with a satisfying crunch...

A lie is the only truth about a liar.

Let us have wine and woman mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong