True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

Fantasize and start dream building. Bring your dreams into material reality. See yourself at your best. Transform yourself with dedication and work for excellence.

I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled.

Just being ourselves, feeling proud of what we are by God's grace, believing in our own efforts to be successful in whatever we do...is real happiness :-)

Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.

The enormous faith of many made for one.

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.