We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.