Remove yourself, sir!

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You've got to become them."(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.

Death is an insatiable creature with greedy hands.

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

I don't have a social agenda. I just don't choose to ignore what's in front of me.