I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

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.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

We should be selfless in our practice as believers

I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.

It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.

A visionary thrives under all conditions.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.