I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

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.

I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing

Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.

Improve yourself. Raise your attitude up to excellence for success. Get going now and create the reality.

The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

I have always wanted to own a homemade ice cream shop!

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.