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 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.

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.

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

LIFE=UNCONDITIONAL LOVEIf you can feel this equation. I said IF you can FEEL this equation you can solve any mystery of life..

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.