History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.

I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books.

I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay in the clubs. Jazz must be accessible to everyone.

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.

I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Leave an old flame in the past. It'll just get worse if you rekindle it.