The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

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.

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

You are to weak you need a prowl to protect you... I mean that A Prowl must be your friend (get it?? Prowl film!)

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.

I've been married to my wife for 60 years but it feels just like yesterday, and you know what a bloody awful day yesterday was.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

I misled people, including even my wife.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.