It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.