My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

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.

Life works in mysterious ways, and I believe one of the biggest challenges and successes is to let go and let it be.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

A rare piece of magic, don't let it FLY by you

Without money nothing gets done.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.