Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

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.

Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.

One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.