The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

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.

Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them.

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

There are no twin souls in God's universe.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.

All you need to know about Donald Trump is he loves his family and he loves this country. And he's going to be a great president of the United States.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.