I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

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.

The surest antidote for anxiety is to always do your best and have complete trust in God.

These remedies that I provide in this book do not come any better than this. If they were any better, I would marry them!

I am unconcerned with what yesterday has left behind, but rather what tomorrow will bring.

There should be pluralism - the concept of many religions, many truths. But we must also be careful not to become nihilistic.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

Change Quotes were designed for those who need to change.

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.