"Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows."

"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."

"Failure is impossible."

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

"The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened."

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."

"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

"History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy."

"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."