Art is what everyone knows it is.

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.

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.

You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo

Your decisions in hours of failure would determine whether you will forever be where you are or you will move out of that situation.

Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future, " he said.

Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity.

Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.