You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

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.

Doubt is something we all feel, but some people allow theirs to grow stronger than their confidence and faith.

If dual torment is to be my one condition, both of loving and being loved I would quit.

Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

Oatmeal tastes so good on its own, you don't even need to add sugar.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.