Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

Happiness...I see you..You are that wave that comes and goes...always fast...and always leaving a gap behind...

We have created a world we don’t like, don’t understand and don’t trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.