Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

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’m not a good kid. Yeah, look, I’m just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.A lousy piece of paper. That’s me.A piece of paper that’s waiting to be torn up.

For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

My husband is my most valuable resource.

Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes.

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.

I'm so happy. I'm one of the happiest people I know. I truly am.

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.