I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.