Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room.

One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

I will keep on hurdling and keep on hustling.

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

The MacGuffin in that [Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky story] was [Bill] Clinton staying in office. That's what he wanted, and the media was hell-bent that he was gonna get what he wanted.

I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.