The only way to keep improving is to stay hungry.
I try to live my life with a sense of gratitude and appreciation for the opportunities I've been given.
The historian must have some kinship with his subject. The dead will not speak unless they are properly addressed.
I always try to push the boundaries and explore new ways of storytelling.
The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.