I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

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.

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

The reward of life is Joy

He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.

There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.