“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to ...”

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)”

“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ”

“Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.”

“Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.”

“Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as ...”

“I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“Every pain is a lesson.”