To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment.
There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.