The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

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.

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

He felt like sin but tasted like love so what's a clumsy girl to do but stumble in delicious crazy love.

Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.

Still all the tulkus being born are men.