Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
My wife, the star I steer by.
Nobody ever lived in the past.
A leader must look and act the part.
I would pay to do what I do if I had to.
It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
Home is really where education does begin.
There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
The most interesting people are never perfect.
Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes.
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
However little television you watch, watch less.
The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.
To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.
The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.
Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.
They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
