Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

Oral history represents a democratization of the history-telling process ... this thing of having history recorded from on high for us, instead of doing it for ourselves, has proven to be a risky business. We need to have history from the bottom up.