History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itselfAnd leads the will to desperate undertakingsAs oft as any passion under heavenThat does afflict our natures.

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!

He that is not jealous is not in love.

Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.

Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

Rosalyn Bruyere has been one of the most important teachers of hands-on healing in the world for many years. I will always be grateful for what I have learned from her.

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.