Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.