War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.