Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.