History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

Be near your brothers. Not just one, but both of them.

But some boys like boys more -And some girls make other girls hearts soar!

I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.