Much of command is the ability to take command.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?
Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.
No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.