Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

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.

My wife, the star I steer by.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

Discover what you could do with your life and empower yourself in that area. Add value to yourself in that your area of calling.

I love it, " I say. "So I learned it." It's an explanation that leaves a lot out. But I learned a long time ago that people don't really want explanations.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

I listened to 19 guilty verdicts for my wife and me. And all I could do was sob.

Faith is developed in a setting where we cannot see ahead.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

Why are all Christians happy and praising Jesus? It's because we are not DEAD! We may be imperfect, but we aren't DEAD!

Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.