Christopher Sheets

“We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.”
― David McCullough, John Adams

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I said that any individual who learned to do something better than anybody else—learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner—had solved his problem, regardless of the colour of his skin, and that in proportion as the Negro learned to produce what other people wanted and must have, in the same proportion would he be respected.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: an autobiography