I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that and I would hope somebody liked me.

The worst mistake of first contact made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.

If you think you have it tough read history books.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Strangers are exciting their mystery never ends. But there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand however is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands it also seldom works properly.

Antiquities are history defaced or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule or ever did rule.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man not his history.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.