In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

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 must work together on a common vision and a common goal.

The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later

What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

The three roles that I have always admired are Valjean, Phantom and Jesus and I've enjoyed them all so much.

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace.