"There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"I feel happy to terrify kids"

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

"I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"No man is happy who does not think himself so"

"Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours"

"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future"