The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.