History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

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.

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

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.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Stars are made for public light shows, consider how the night sky sheers out cosmic cheers at their glow!

...Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order." He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

Why do u drive on a parkway and park in the driveway. Its messed up.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.