Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.
Success means being satisfied with what you do every day. It's being proud of the better person you are becoming.
Nobody knows that they're going to be Champions - you have to work to get there.
My belief is stronger than your doubt.
All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.
Never give up and take nothing for granted in life.
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.