Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice, she felt something strangely like disappointment when he said, "As you wish.

You are a leader until you are dictated by your own words.

Excellence costs a great deal.

Some things are meant to be and if it was, you will know it.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

Market growth alone doesn't give you enough tailwind. You have to create your own. The way to do that is by designing products for consumers that wow them.

Once you experience forgiveness, your outer world changes.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.