God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.

Blessed your mum, who carried you in a womb for nine months.

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either

Never say "NO" to yourself, just try. You will never know what could happen.

I think that acting is no fun unless it's hard. I'm not titillated by acting or being an actor unless I have to work hard.

Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

Immortals are never alien to one another.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.