Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

What is past is prologue.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

What we live by we die by.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

History, a distillation of rumour.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Passions are the gales of life.