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

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be so admirable. The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.