Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse.

There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.