The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

Success always demands a greater effort.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.