You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.