Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.