I’ve always thought it best to go about life with the slight suspicion that you might be very special, tempered with the humility to realize that you could be wrong

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do,... See more