The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.
Women speak in the superlative.
Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.
Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.
May hope rise within you. May peace wash over you.
Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.
Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.