However little television you watch, watch less.

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.

Prayer elevates and transforms you. Nourish your soul using this powerful communication tool every day, and you will never be the same again.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.

There are no slow retroviruses, only slow retrovirologists.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!