historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

Am I not a man and brother?

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.

Peace is inner joy, tranquility, nonjudgmental love and universal compassion.

When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.

My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

I think you just look for the person you have the most fun with. And that's enough. You realize, "Wait, I can just keep having fun with her forever?" Yes, you can do that. That is the key.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

We were very fortunate, because we had so many hits, so we'd be singing out all hits.

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!