What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!

...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

Tenía en mis manos la posibilidad de vivir la vida que yo deseaba; no luchando ni huyendo, sino recurriendo a mi ingenio.

The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness.

The pond garden is an intricate phenomenon coalescing the intent and will of various people of influence living at various times.

Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.

At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.