To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.

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

Home is really where education does begin.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.