Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.