"When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge."

“What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.”

“Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.”

Source : Source: www.neh.gov

“To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.”

Source : Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

“Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.”

“I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.”

“Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.”

“I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is nonsense. But that was Hitler's idea, and...was pure fantasy. As I say, Hitler is a riddle to me and will always remain so.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 190), 2004.

“Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.”