A quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Waste not a second questioning another man’s courage.

Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonidas to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed. He replied: "Contempt for death." For us as artists, read "failure." Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

he who will fight for the right, if he would live even for a brief space, must have a private station and not a public one.

The discerning man who acknowledges his limitations is not far off perfection.