The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

Am I not a man and brother?

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

May God give you the courage to live a daring life.

Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.

Monopoly is business at the end of its journey.

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.

Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.