The father of confederation is deadlock.

Personality is lower than partiality.

Above all nations is humanity.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.