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.

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.

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.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.