Home is really where education does begin.

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

I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.

However little television you watch, watch less.

I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.

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