To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

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.

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.