The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle

Chatterers are a menace.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.