The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

To some people the impossible is impossible.

Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.

I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow.

In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.

sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen

He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

A star on earth - a star in heaven.

...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.