somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

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.

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

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.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

Without [hatred] Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it.

Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.

I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.

And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.