It seemed a good idea at the time.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.