When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.

What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.