A leader must look and act the part.

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.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

We need to never consider ourselves as having 'arrived'; always trying to learn how we can change to be more like Christ

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.