No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

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.

When your freedom depends on the death of an innocent, it haunts you forever, ' Red thought empathetically. 'Even if you couldn’t save them anyway.

Truth with love is a lie

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

Once I meet the piano, I have no other choice, because I need to have a good date right! So I am trying to please the piano to have the best outcome.

Physician, heal thyself. Teacher, teach yourself.

Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

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