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.
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.
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.
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.
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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...
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
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,...
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.
Cats don't think they're owned by anybody.
I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown - 'a journey without maps,' to borrow Graham Gree...
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.
No matter how peaceful a situation might seem, you could never be protected from sudden, unexpected violence that might also engulf the stranger.
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...
It was the face of a nonreligious ascetic, capable of enduring hardship and pain beyond what most men would even want to contemplate, a true believer in other people’s causes, a curious combination of...
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.