I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits