A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.