Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army

I hate that you went through hell for years and that you suffered. But without your past, you and I wouldn’t have a future.

The writing in itself is transformative for me.

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

Creativity is mistakes.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.

Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.