History is the school of statesmanship.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

I believe it was Shakespeare who said, 'All the world's a stage, and you are CRAP!'

Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.

Most fears are just illusions.

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

The more times you do something, the more likely it is you're going to get it wrong.

As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.