"The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes."

"That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment."

"I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax."

"As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it."

"But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression."

"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."

"However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life."

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ."