Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.