It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

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.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.

Abba Marcius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

I had become Harry Potter. Except I was thirteen and not magic, and my destiny, whatever it was, held no profound purpose.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

I wanna get a little drunk, but I also want some pancakes.

I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.

I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.