They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

However little television you watch, watch less.

I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like.

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

Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was the largest fleet ever seen in American waters. In fact it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century, the largest, most powerful force ever sent forth by Britain or any other nation.