Home is really where education does begin.

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.

What else is there to do in this world but love other people?

I'm passionate about the issues that I care about and I'm a really good listener.

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Las Vegas is the most honest fake city in the world.

Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.

Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

I learned to practice smiling when I'm feeling sad, you know?