If you are going to go through hell, keep going

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.