There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

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.

Start loving yourself early so others will know how to love you amazingly.

Every problem has a solution, even if we do not know the answer

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

They tended to look at his lips, for his transient gaze was dizzying, though the mouth, you see, the mouth was also a danger, for the teeth would do the unraveling.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.