My wife, the star I steer by.

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.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

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

The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

She's so obnoxious. Like a whole Saturday night drunk tank full of obnoxious packed into one little body." Detective Cavuto

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future

The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.

Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.