None of this means of course that Robert E. Lee wasn't influenced by his father, or didn't inherit some of his better characteristics. Like Henry Lee, Robert was tall, physically strong, a born horsem...
I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby and my favorite m...
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
No matter how peaceful a situation might seem, you could never be protected from sudden, unexpected violence that might also engulf the stranger.
Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits.
Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acq...
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Cats don't think they're owned by anybody.
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.
Frost was no match for Nixon - far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a pushover for the great and the famous, always deeply impressed with the fact that here he was, David Fro...
For the first time it was clear to those who listened to Churchill’s speech—and the whole country listened carefully—that all of the easy presumptions that had shored up appeasement, among them belief...
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.
My father, Vincent, a rumpled Bohemian who had followed his
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest...
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character, would
Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee's affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact,...
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