Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.

Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

You create your own universe as you go along.

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.