Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.