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

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.

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

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

This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.

When you are fired because of laziness, dare to fire back with the spirit of enthusiasm. Rise up at the same time and at the same place that you have fallen. You can’t give up!

I'm a private contractor now. I choose my clients, not the other way around.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

Land surveying has been a positive influence on my life, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't considered it to give it a chance!

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

I'm not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.