A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.

History at its best is vicarious experience.

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people, ' who created the government that Americans still live under.

If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes.

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

When I meet young girls, Im always like, Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because its the greatest gift I can give.

If you have a big challenge today, that just means you have a big destiny.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.

By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".