The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.