Perfectionism spells paralysis.

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.