May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

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.

A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl and work like a dog.

You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

You can't disrespect the love. You can't disrespect the peace treaty.