The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

I love learning, but hate being taught.

Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.