"I am a part of everything that..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”

“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.”

“Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.”

“A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers.”

“Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.”

“The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”

“An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.”