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

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

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

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.

Home is really where education does begin.

If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.