After a long day I get off the B train at 81st and walk by the Museum of Natural History and Theodore Roosevelt Park. I find it all so soothing. It isn't scary at night, but peaceful. I have a lot of respect for Teddy Roosevelt. He was an accomplished man who did a lot with his life and with his wealth. I find him inspiring. I remember when I went to his house and how moved I was being there.
He is the only native of New York City to become President of the United States.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech by President Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
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