They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.

I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

When negative feelings move upon you, reflect, and recognize the danger of feeding those feelings and keeping them alive.

But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.