I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

On Christmas morning when I was a child, my mother would leave a book wrapped at the foot of the bed, which was a hint that Santa had come. It was also her way of keeping us in bed a little longer before we went downstairs. So I've always associated books with happiness and gifts. And they are. I can't get enough of them.

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

The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.