The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

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.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

Say unto thine own heart, 'I am mine own redeemer.

Sweet things happen. They still do.

It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing.

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.