If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.