There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.

Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.