It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
“Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.”
“What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.”