To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace or peace an interlude...
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was...
Look into the heavens and say, “It’s my turn to make history.
