Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

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.

We live someone else’s life without trying to understand and become what we are really designed to be

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good