The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.