When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

Dangers which are warded off and difficulties which are overcome before they reach a crisis are utterly unrecognised.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.