The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling.

Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.

Hold what you've got and hit them where you can.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

I'm not much of a joke writer.

The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

Waiting makes wine better; but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

Shoot first, ask questions last. That's how these so called gangsta's last.

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.