My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.