All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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…
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.