...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?

My wife, the star I steer by.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good way to find out how much you don't know because you learn specifically what you need to know that you don't know at the moment by writing.

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.