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.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.