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

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

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.

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

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.

Lust promises you the world, and disappoints. Love promises you the universe, and delivers.

...And you're the only one who knows.

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

The festivals are cool because you make a lot of connections at the festivals.

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.

In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.

Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.