“I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind-"
"I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom."
"It's the same thing. Humility.”
“...life is a continual process of learning, working hard, rising up, and then being humbled. Sliding over, then sliding over again. And again.”
Source: Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters
“A humble person is comfortable in their own skin.”
Source: Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters
“Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous”
Source: The Rise of Shams
“Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.”
Source: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
“One of the ladies asked about that awful Bobby Kennedy, and Goldwater responded by speaking about the attorney general with touching affection. (Mary) McGrory recalled how Jack Kennedy behaved at a similar stage in his campaign: spouting statistics, attacking carefully chosen enemies and puffing all the right friends, quoting dead Greeks, never cracking a joke lest he remind the voters how young he was.”
Source: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
“Richard Nixon's conversation was "loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching his vacation slides.”
Source: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
“Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.”
Source: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
“I am a neighbour king to stretch my branches over him, just as Toghrul sheltered me when I was a weed-stalk next to a strong tree.”
Source: Imaginary Kings
“People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.”