As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.

I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.

Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

My saying is; We win and lose together. I think that really does apply to both my fans, family and the team.

Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.

If children have interest, then Education happens