In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.