Our doubts are traitors of thought and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition aspired, and success achieved.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.