There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.

He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.