If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.

Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

Befriend knowledge

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

In the cold morning the rested street stands up To greet the clerk who saunters down the world.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.