In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.