David McCullough Quotes
Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.
Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.
...it is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911
We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel more deeply than those at home the evil effects of the present distracted condition of our country.
All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12)
The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.
To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness.
A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.
We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. -Bishop Milton Wright to Orville Wright, 20 Sept. 1908
On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth.
In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.
