The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

What a fool I have been!

One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.

There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.