Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.