I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?