Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.