Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

...and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

We can't always win the game

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.