My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

If you are going through hell just keep going