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.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
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...
While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.
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,...
Cats don't think they're owned by anybody.
No matter how peaceful a situation might seem, you could never be protected from sudden, unexpected violence that might also engulf the stranger.
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
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...
Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.
Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character, would
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...
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