When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.

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.

I miss your voice because it is a symphony

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne

It’s your action that reflects on the others’ reaction. If you expect good you are forced to be good.

You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

When I was a senior, I ran for class president. And I lost. One of my opponents even told me I was "really stupid" if I thought a girl could be elected president.

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.