No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

We've been programmed to think meat is protein and you need meat. No, we are not cavemen. There are plenty other ways.

Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.

We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.

There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.

And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.

There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.