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

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.

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.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.

If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.

At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.

A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can’t even comb my hair.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.

If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.