I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

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.

You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

Don't analyze her love. Just turn the green light on and move into her soul.

Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND the race itself.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

As the family goes, so goes society.

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.