As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

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.

Physical existence is finite.- Sagar Gorijala.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he's a statesman.

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.