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.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".