Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

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

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

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.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Never, ever, trust a man who is willing to die in glory but is unable to live with pride.

In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

Methods are the masters of masters.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

And so they fought. And so they laughed. Friends. And before they knew it, They were inseparable.

We don't have to expect everything from those who govern us; that would be juvenile.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?