History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.

The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

Let us see God before man every day.

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.