I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn't talk until I was about 15. It's a kind of famous story at my house.
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 911 attacks on America. His answer. . . "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.
I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.
The work of the artist is to heal the soul.
You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.
. . . and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.