The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

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.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

In all of her immortal life, Morweena had never felt so alone, helpless or weak. So scared.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan...believe...act!

The adversaries main goal is to confuse & discourage the great.

Humility and Trustworthiness are not rooted only in Presentation, Voice modulation or Nice Jorganbut in Actions and Intentions that speak louder than you do and they last longer

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.