To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

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.

Kiss me with love like a butterfly kisses flowers to find and taste the nectar of life.

Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck.

You can’t imagine just how much believing in negative thoughts is affecting your life…until you stop.

Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.