Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

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.

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

Never, never, never give up.

One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some kind of velvety cool blackness," adding then: "Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.