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

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.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.

We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

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