I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.
In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.
On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!
Youth deals only in extremes.
The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism. . . have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.
. . . the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.
There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.