Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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.

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.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

Men are often miserable in relationships because they feel their partner takes them for granted, or shows him no appreciation for the things he gets right.

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

Yes, I don’t have any talent. That’s why I work hard.

Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.