Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

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.

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

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

My baby she'll take a chance, my baby got a brand new dance, Wango Tango, Wango Tango.