Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
Barbara TuchmanWisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
Barbara TuchmanReasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara TuchmanI have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
Barbara TuchmanThe open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
Barbara Tuchman