Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to impact a generation.

If a man cries in front of you, it doesn't mean he's weak. It means that he trusts you enough to let his guard down.

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies.

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

If I am facing problems and difficulties and I find an answer, I am very eager to share it with someone else. It kind of makes going through the problems or difficulties worthwhile.