The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

All history is contemporary history.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.

Your self-talk creates your reality.

The sun that warms is also the sun that burns.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.

All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.

I'm keeping in shape, you know, gotta look good for the ladies - and certain guys. Hey, I can't control who's looking. I just gotta bring the heat.