Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.