The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

I love design.

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I'm going to San Antonio, for example, I'll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.