I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.