History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth more industry more happiness more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me particularly given my medical history.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it only what destroys it can be told.

Little islands of human happiness peace and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.