All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright

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.

Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.

We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

To say that they are the enemy of the people, among the worst human beings on earth, it encourages and legitimizes an anger towards the press that, you know, I think, fosters this attitude.

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.