The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

Those who love you, you are living in their love. Those who hate you, them, you have to love.

The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first.

No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.

We're all entitled to our superstitions.