If you are going to go through hell, keep going

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.