To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone

Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.