For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

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.

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

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.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today

To show our commitment to the future means to dedicate our time, efforts, resources, saving nature and to develop nice thoughts for better thinking.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

Are you asking if I ever spied on you while you were taking a shower?

I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

To love is everything: love is God.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.