The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.

Life is going to happen to you. Your destiny will be found in how you respond to life. Most let fate find them

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

Not if Their Party were waiting, Not if to talk with Me Were to Them now, Homesickness After Eternity.

I just love it when I hear a little commotion, someone leaving. When I see those doors in the back . . .

Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.