Thomas Edison, dubbed the “Wizard of Menlo Park,” was one of the greatest inventors the world has known. His nearly 1,100 patents exceed that of any other inventor in American history, and his inventions were foundational across a bewildering array of domains, from electronics to medicine to chemical research.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

A good story never dies.

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only — that by his act he will change the course of history.

The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.

There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby's or something.

I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

We do acknowledge that we have deficiencies in the area of human rights, but at the same time we would also say that the people in China are enjoying a level of human rights that is unprecedented in our history.

I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.

My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.

Look into the heavens and say, “It’s my turn to make history.

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't I've written 14 musicals now I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact than the richest without meaning.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we as women become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

Women want love to be a novel men a short story.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

You know it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.