Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

God is my provider.

Such as the sun, let us love everyone, now feel and behold, the dance of your spirit and joy of your soul.

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

History at its best is vicarious experience.

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?

When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.