I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught.

To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it like to have been alive then? What were these people like as human beings?

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

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.