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 was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Much of command is the ability to take command.