Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

Home is really where education does begin.

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.