Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer...
David McCulloughHistory is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David McCulloughWashington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
David McCulloughEvery book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
David McCulloughExercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billionโand those who will follow them. And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that youโre not special. Because everyone is.
David McCullough