Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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.