He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

History takes time. History makes memory.

History does not merely touch on language but takes place in it.

Well I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The biggest mistakes early on involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are without recognizing it causing to themselves.

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Maturity - among other things the unclouded happiness of the child at play who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness the good he seeks.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them that's the mark of a great player.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

In general pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.