The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

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.

Hope is the most evil of all emotions

Life is all about opportunities

Trust is a hard thing to win back.

Everything in life is related to business—your hobbies, friends, family, relaxation, career, education, etc.

Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's "Irony".

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.

One thing you have to have when you act is energy.