“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” That sensitive observation by Kahlil Gibran sums up things pretty well for me. I believe many things deeply about human relationships, about the beauty that surrounds...
I am British. For 24 years I was a regular officer in the British Army in the period between the Wars and during World War II. I loved my profession, but it sometimes used to worry me that the training...
The child is father of the man, and the pattern accepted in early days lasts a long time, although it may become hidden and confused with the passing of the years. The pattern for us was set by my father,...
I believe that in back of the position my country occupies in today’s world is an ultimate purpose. World leadership is not ours by accident, nor did we seize it by conquest. It is entrusted to us to see if...
If someone had asked me a year ago what I believed in, I could not have answered, partly because I had done very little serious thinking to find out what I did believe, partly because I was going through about...
Though Theodore Roosevelt III came from a very prominent family, it was not fame and fortune that he valued. Above all, Mr. Roosevelt learned to appreciate family as the grounding force in his life, providing him with a sense of meaning and fulfillment.
We live in momentous and curious times, and I’m not infrequently tempted to ask myself: What is the purpose of it all? When I allow myself time for such speculation, I find that it is, invariably, to waste it. I...
I have had an unusual chance to decide what I believe. A few years ago, I abandoned an active career as a foreign correspondent and plunged into a South American wilderness to think things out. Earlier—during the Second World War...
When I began teaching at 19 years of age, I possessed an absolute faith in God and life. Early in my profession, a promising boy became a murderer and a beautiful girl was drowned on the eve of her graduation....
