We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

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 author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.

It's the small sins that save you. That's how you survive when all around you are getting their heads sawed off.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others".

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.

No, Blitz. That's oversimplifying it.

Americans want to go to heaven without dying.

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.