If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.