Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

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.

The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn’t dead yet. I think.

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose man enjoyment is winning.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

Abundance is a direct reflection of your preparation to live abundantly. People who are ready for abundance keep their heads up, their eyes open and give thanks for everything they get.

I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

I learned to park outside of Denny's because it's 24 hours. I made a deal at a 7-Eleven with a mailman so I could get my mail delivered there.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.

We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.