There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.