I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

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.

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

Tomorrow is promissed to no one. We can not waste today.

We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...

Determine the result you desire..law of averages does not know the objective untill the decision is made. Once a decision is made, the law of averages goes into operation.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

The only way you will advance spiritually is through humility.

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

To succeed at the level I want to you have to be focused and serious.