Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

Don't try to provoke me, you won't win because of few words... I will be just quite because you are under my level!

A woman is perturbed by what a man forgets---a man by what a woman remembers.

[There are] so many things I've learned, and I'm still learning, actually.

When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.

If it's a boy, I'll put him in tutus!

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is neither a masculine dance nor a feminine dance. It has the strength and grace of both.

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.