Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

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.

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.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence.

I've made mistakes, I clearly did, but what I was hoping for was that some other dumbass would get on the front page and take me off the hook. I miss Lane Kiffin.

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

It doesn't matter if you have a valentine or not - just love yourself and be your own.

An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.