Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.

History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.

Money isn't enough. Happiness takes more than a padded bank account.

Sometimes love is pastel. Sometimes love is black. And sometimes love is fiery red and you feel as if you are going to burn in the flames.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all." -Halt

The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

Often a silent face has voice and words.

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago

So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole.