It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast betweenthe standards of the past and the standards of the present. Somefulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly.

The Fascist utopia, like that of the Communists, was false, and generated immense suffering. But there were those who dreamed it sincerely.

Trust in God's timing. It's better to have to wait a while and have things fall into place then to rush into something and have things fall apart.

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

Ultimately, I am all I can know.

And they [illegal immigrants] will come back, but they are going to have to go out, and hopefully they get back.

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

everybody has a story to tell

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew