Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

His leap was exact, mathematical. The initial arc - head tucked between taut arms that spread out gradually like wings - was as graceful as a swan dive.

When you have a Job, it means someone has placed a limitation of TIME on you. Meaning every aspect of your life is controlled. It becomes stressing when you are at the bottom of the Career Ladder.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

We have pledged to be the greenest government ever. We must lead by example...We are not asking others to do things we will not do ourselves.

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.