Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

My wife, the star I steer by.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

Pull back the curtain and jump down the rabbit hole.

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repentance and revival.

Always stay young with your looks, your thoughts should speak your maturity

Life is the space between our things.

You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

The test of true competence is the end result.

If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.

Practice with your fingers and you need all day. Practice with your mind and you will do as much in 1 1/2 hours.