Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating.

He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.

[S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep—good sleep, and enough of it—this is a necessity without which you cannot have the exercise of use, nor the food.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.