The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.
I never could be good when I was not happy.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
The frozen ocean. . . of Boston life.
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. . . . As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.
Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves.