[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

The biggest obstacle in life, is not failure. The biggest obstacle, is the fear of failure.

The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.

We do not know how to make ourselves feel worthwhile on our own, and unless we specifically learn how to value ourselves, we go to our graves depending on others for a sense of self-worth.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.