Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

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.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.