There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.