The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.

The most interesting people are never perfect.

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

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

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.

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.