We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.