I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.