No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

Old men make war, young men fight and die

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

Go into the sunshine and be happy with what you see.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?