No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.