As much research as you think you're doing, you're going to mess up, without a question.

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.

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

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.

Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love.

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

Me as a backup center? Hell no.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.