To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?

Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

We’ll always be grateful for the love we’ve received from all of our fans and supporters, and for winning a Super Bowl. I’ll always be proud to say I played for the Baltimore Ravens.

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.