Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history.

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas Jefferson was talking about.

A new future requires a new past.

Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.

I admire Lincoln enormously and I think what's interesting about Lincoln is how he changes, it's not that he held the same view throughout his life.

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.

But mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

Busy idleness urges us on.

My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year.

Gun Control is mind control.

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.