How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.

From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.