Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ↗
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do. ↗
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. ↗
Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States. ↗
And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons. ↗