The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

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

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.