We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

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.

O Lord of mercy, have pity on us.

Healthy people learn how to frequently adjust their thoughts to make reality comfortable and realistic.

Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?

What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.

What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.