I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

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.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.