Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.