Nobody ever lived in the past.

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.

Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.

Great times call for great men.

I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.

Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service.

I don't care about people who don't care about me. If people are negative or mean, then that's their issue. Screw them.

All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.