Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes.

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

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

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning.

I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art, music, engineering, science, medicine, finance, the world of architecture and technology - if those are left out, then you're not getting a full sense of the human condition. History is human and we human beings are involved in all kinds of things and that's part of our humanity.

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.