This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.