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.

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

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.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.