Our lives teach us who we are.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.