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...
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,...
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...
Howeitat, Auda’s own tribe, where they were feasted with one of those lavish meals that Lawrence loathed so much: hot grease and pieces of mutton on a bed of rice, decorated with the singed heads of t...
This night, however, she surprised me by getting down on her poor old knees (as she always referred to them) beside me and told me to pray with her for the safety of the British Army in France. Her ow...
Across some of the harshest and most difficult terrain in the world, led by a man who already had a price on his head.
When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your h...
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.
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.
Even those who die in terrorist attacks, and have thus had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, are described as heroes, though given a choice most of them would no doubt have pref...
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged.
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at...
Like any man who has two masters with opposing interests, he was torn between them.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Writers are always outsiders and probably ought to be, since only outsiders see things clearly: the people who publish them, or make movies, or produce plays are always richer and more powerful, howev...
Ask a book publisher how many copies a book has sold, and he or she, presuming you’re not the author, will probably try to remember the size of the first printing, then double it. If you’re the author...
We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other w...
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. He had an instinctive understanding of the fact that the British as a people dislike boasting, and pride themselves not on victory but on bein...
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