I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with a… - Luciano Pavarotti

For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this – to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.

Everything has a beauty peculiar to itself; but if you put one instead of another, the most beautiful becomes ugly, because it is not in its proper place.

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.