In war, only the simple succeeds.

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

To achieve, you need thought

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.

You mean you let him talk to you like that and you aren't even getting any Man what a rip-off.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.