Quotes from Robert Lacey

It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.

Costello must have been the guiding genius behind the 1929 Atlantic City gathering when Al Capone came to confer with the bootleggers of the East Coast.

Orthodox Judaism does not place undue emphasis on hellfire and damnation, nor are children specially pressured to search their souls for sin. But the priorities of a cheder education were anything but material. Read, read, read. Study, study, study. These were the objectives of school — and of life itself.

JeÅ›li m??czyzna wie, czego chce, mówi siÄ™, ?e jest mÄ™ski. JeÅ›li kobieta mówi, co myÅ›li, mówi siÄ™, ?e jest wredna - albo i gorzej.

The months since their marriage had demonstrated that the couple share a common character flaw – they both have a tendency to cascade downwards from their peaks of generous self-confidence into miserable moments of self-pitying victimhood. They see the world as hostile and start behaving in self-destructive ways that make that hostility come to pass.

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.