He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

My wife, the star I steer by.

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

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.