All history is contemporary history.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.

There's no one to mourn for a life that love stole.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy!

You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.