The world only remembers the winners.

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie...

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

Stillness overcomes heat.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

I just have a vision of something, and it seems to go a long way. One thought goes a long way.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.