History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

History is the memory of things said and done.

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

You should’ve told me, ” she repeats. “Because here’s a news flash: You might’ve wanted to shelter me, but there’s nowhere you can hide me that’ll keep me safe from what’s inside my head.

Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!

Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!