I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.

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.

Love has power in it. At the end, it wins over all miseries.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.

I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.