Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.

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.

Choices create our map as we travel toward the new reality we are creating ~

But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play to bring their parents glory.

Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!