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

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.