There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

Imagination can take you to any place of interest.

Live for great hope and the beauty of dreams.

I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

Believe in yourself. Pick a path that you, deep down in your soul, won't be ashamed of.

A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.

I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war, ... but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.

Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.

You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.