George William Curtis

While we read history we make history.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.