History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

They know too well the violent hypnosis of those who hope to possess them-- men who can smell the blood on the places where a woman is breaking.

I was raping Frank Herbert, but with love.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

All your heroes are dead! I killed them!

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.

Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.