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.

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

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

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

I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing the key and a letter comes up and is printed on a piece of paper. I can understand that.

George P. A. Healy; "I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of courage, of inexperience—which is sometimes a great help—and a strong desire to be my very best.

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