Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

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.

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.

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.

In quiet moment, the Lord refreshes my soul.

I certainly didn't want to date. I was through with guys.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

Donald Trump is communicating with people in America who've felt like they have not been listened to.

You can't take no breaks.

In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.

One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.