The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Success and talent aren’t even in the same neighborhood.

When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

Don't use your past history as an excuse to be miserable. Use your past as a testament to show the world just how far you have come.

People don't want the truth, ' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.