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.

Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.

Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.

We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations