More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.