Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

All history is contemporary history.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Face it, ' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got, ' I said.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

President Hinckley's strong, continuing challenge to us is retention, which requires full cooperation between the missionary, the leaders and members.

Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Unfortunately, what my head wanted and what my heart wanted were two completely different things.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today.