The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.