History is and should be a science.

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Eyes are wonderful! Revelation is more wonderful! Eyes deceive you

The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea.

I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.

Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going.

Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.

The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.

The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

When God gives us a talent it is our responsibility to hone it for His purpose and glory