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

I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.