The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne

I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.