Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

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.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.

People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

Character comes before scholarship.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.