Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

History is an argument without end.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

I've worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad.

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.

In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.