I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.

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

We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.