Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.

As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

Loneliness kills. It becomes more conspicuous in the crowd.

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

Lying to the Left is like water to fish

The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

Why are people so cruel? What did I ever do to them?

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.