Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

You create your own universe as you go along.

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.