Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.

Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.p. 479

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed or not possible to avoid making those that are required.

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

I like the team effort of everyone pulling together to make one good project.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.

Make sure you tell the people you love that you love them. Loudly and often. You never know when it might be too late.