Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

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

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.