Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide, is a wild call and a clear call, that cannot be denied!

Mutli-tools are like insults, girls - you should always have one on hand.

Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear.

Computers are idiots whose only virtue is that they can count up to two extremely fast.

I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.

When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.