"There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

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

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

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread"

"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"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""

"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"

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"