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

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.

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

It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)

The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you.

We know from the company we hired, Kraus Stripe , that there was Russian involvement in this to destabilize not just our institution, the Democratic Party, but our democracy itself.

Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

Humanity is filled with beautiful and positive and powerful people who care. I'm so glad we have people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the world.

Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.

My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before?

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.