First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

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.

If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.

Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy... is the mind experiencing "presence" in our holographic existence.

You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good.

I've been so lucky to have my mum and dad because they've worked to give my brother and I everything. We're not spoilt children.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.

Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.