Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.
Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.
The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.
The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.
I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.
God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.
He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave; Whence those impetuous currents in the main Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.
I think being self-taught is the only way of really learning things, because you have to question everybody. You don't simply absorb axioms or so-called truths like they are rules. You have to test them, and you need to reflect on them, to consider the effect they create. So, you have very significant opinions about things, because they come out from your own reflections.