You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.