There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book