You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.

When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.