The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Alexandra drew her shawl closer about her and stood leaning against the frame of the mill, looking at the stars which glittered so keenly through the frosty au…

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. It was from facing th…

First is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, agai…

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined...or one great figure...or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And o…

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be wri…