The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

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.

Ah, two firm friends, reunited at last! There should be sweet violin music playing for us, but I'll settle for the screams of the dying.

Prayer is key to our effort to communicate the Gospel and win men and women to Christ.

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel

There's a lot you can do without words.

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.