What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.

If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.

After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.

You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire.

And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.

Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

What makes a good man?