There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

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.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

I don't want to see anyone else looking like me.That'd be my nightmare. Though if I saw someone wearing what I did, I would know he was swaggy.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

[New York] gives you room to be weird; you can be yourself and you can wear whatever you want. No one is really going to judge you because everyone is doing their own thing.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

FROM THE FIRST DAY YOU ARE TOLD IF YOU WANT TO BE THE BEST THEN STAY OUT THE NIGHTCLUBS!

I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.

If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?