Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

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.

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield

The tough times start, " he said, "the day the last casserole dish is returned.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, or at medium speed. I either do or I don’t.