It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.

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.

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

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently.

I will only add, God bless you.

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.

I usually wake up far after breakfast. So I have no other choice but to go straight to dinner.

Generally I don't like traveling around saying the exact same thing. I don't think that's a very good thing to do with your life.

Everything you want to be, do or have comes from love.