Good and great are seldom in the same man.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

You create your own universe as you go along.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.