Author: Michael Korda

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

- Michael Korda

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

- Michael Korda

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

- Michael Korda

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

- Michael Korda

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

- Michael Korda

The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.

The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.

- Michael Korda

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

- Michael Korda

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver.

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver.

- Michael Korda

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

- Michael Korda

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