Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

All history is contemporary history.

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.

As a nation, develop your wealth of virtues and watch yourself live better than most countries who brag themselves in their virtues of natural wealth

Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.

Events don’t make a person interesting. It’s who they are and what’s inside them that makes them interesting.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.

We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

When I do something stupid with money and lose it....I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.