Nobody Ever Lived In The Past.

I Feel That What I Do Is A Calling. I Would Pay To Do What I Do If I Had To. I Will Never Live Long Enough To Do The Work I Want To Do: The Books I Would Like To Write, The Ideas I Would Like To Explore.

History Is A Guide To Navigation In Perilous Times. History Is Who We Are And Why We Are The Way We Are.

Take The Teacher Not The Course. Find Out Who The Great Professors Are - The Great Teachers - And Take Their Courses Because A Subject That You May Not Think You're Interested In May Turn Out To Be Infinitely Fascinating Because Of The Way It's Taught.

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 It Is In Our Time, As Fast As Or Faster Than The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor, The Gap Between The Educated And The Uneducated Is Going To Be Of Greater Consequence And The More Serious Threat To Our Way Of Life. We Must Not, By Any Means, Misunderstand That.

It Was A Day And Age That Saw No Reason Why One Could Not Learn Whatever Was Required - Learn Vitally Anything - By The Close Study Of Books.