It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

Change is certain. Progress is not.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

Good historians...have the future in their bones

They oppressed us but unable to kill our spirit.

Train your Children with Patience, Correct them in Love, Don't Discipline them out of hatred

A Speechmaker's Prayer: "Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you’re not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

It makes every Haitian proud to have such a hospital.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

You can pretty much do it with anything. You can tell your life story with all the jeans you've worn, or every pair of shoes you've owned.