I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.