If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective that is all that writing is about.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement 20 years is not that long.

Of course nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

Classes struggle some classes triumph others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5 000 years of history.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

In history as in human life regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.