History is still in large measure poetry to me.

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

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

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.

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

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

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

IF I can do it and you can do it, if I have a story and you have story.

I don't mind running with turtles.From book: stuff I think aboutBy Sondra Faye

I am closed off into myself and no one but me can ever help me get out.

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.