Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.

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.

Every wound is a word.

Our challenge is more of ignorance than stupidity. Having informed decisions most of us will make reasonable decisions.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.

People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!

Some of their players are internationals; some play for their national team.