You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

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.

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.

With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.

Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life