A man who relentlessly aspires to do excellence evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance

You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it.

If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.

It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It’s like an...