Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.