You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

What is past is prologue.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Man is not made for defeat.