Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget!

Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

The Doctor of our souls has placed the remedy in the hidden regions of the soul.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

You're the Sue Sylvester of NXT.

Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.