Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

I dance to the beat of the earth the memories are the lyrics I write nature leads my soul through this existence I call life.

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

If I did want to come back, I was going to make, what, $50 million? You know what; don't call my phone unless you've got $100 million.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

I believe nature is a force of good. Good is not only a concept, it is a spirit