"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future."

"History's a resource."