I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

You’re an immortal, divine being. A little god, and yet, you toil like a slave. Isn’t that hilarious?

As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.

When stupidity reaches its highest level, we act rubbish knowingly

Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.

Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.