The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

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.

Do what you like, but like what you do.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

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.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.