History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the pr….

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely..

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life..

You can only control what you can control..

Don't talk yourself into not being you..

I live to serve. except the part about living....

The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something….

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong..

That's the thing about faith. It works..

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on..

It is much more rewarding to do more with less..

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was fu….

I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free..

The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and secu….

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven..

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves..

I tend to stay away from the comics..

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either..

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it..

There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoist….