History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.