To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

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

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.