You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.