People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.