The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

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.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.

They succeed, because they think they can.

One must endure without losing tenderness.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

Being proud of your nationality is like congratulating yourself for inheriting money.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

In every picture there should be shade as well as light.

Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.