Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be "cool but determined" he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.