It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

You have the courage and will to overcome your fear and do what's required.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?" "Because she loves you," said Valentine. Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.

I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

I surround myself with people that I want to be with. And I keep moving forward.