The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.

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.

The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.

On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

I feel like people might be slightly less inclined to hate me as much as they did in the past, and I think part of that is selling fewer records.

I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.