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.

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.

The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.

You can't ride the chairlift and call yourself Edmund Hillary.

Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

We have a job to do. After the fight, I'll love him.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them