Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

Never run away from anything. Never!

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge