Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.