General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made. ↗
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. ↗
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ↗