Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes.

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.

Only a woman can make you feel wrong for doing something right.

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

Anyone who can't forgive someone else for screwing up is deluding themselves. Because we've all made mistakes every bit as bad. And we're each praying we'll be forgiven, too.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.