To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
Barbara TuchmanChief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.
Barbara TuchmanThe unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
Barbara TuchmanFor me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
Barbara Tuchman