Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.