You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

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.

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out [Usama] bin Laden.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.

Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.

AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.

Never live beneath your privileges.