There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

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.

Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?

A picture should capture a moment, a place in time you can return to again and again.

You have really nice teeth, ” Terry said and thought they could be excellent for his collection of human body parts.

The great, like stars, are not afraid of dark times for that is when they shine the brightest.

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

I aim to have meaningful, honest interactions with people and be open to their uniqueness.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

Capitalism is in crisis.

You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.