I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.