Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: "Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make".

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

Einstein's was a beautiful mix of confidence and awe.

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

That's it. I'm going to start making the right choices.

Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.

And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens.