Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

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