Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

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.

When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.