The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

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.

He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody.

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.