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

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.

It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.

I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don’t live in decent society.

I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

I want one thing I can point to and say, 'that is good, and it's a part of me.'

Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.