I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

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.

No, there was nothing unusual in any of these dreams as dreams. They were merely displaced in Time.

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are.

Herd Mentality is when you follow a person or a trend just because it has been a hit once or twice.

I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

Some people are real, some people are good, some people are fake and some people are real good at being fake.