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.

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

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.

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

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.