The most interesting people are never perfect.

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.

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

Everybody is who he was in high school.

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn.

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.