The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.

The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.

Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.

The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams.

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.