Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

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.

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together.

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams – the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.

We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.