I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.