When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

To some people the impossible is impossible.

For all those who believed me, and for all those who didn't. It can't be easy hearingthings that you shouldn't.

People were clueless. Allthey ever went by was appearance and rumor.

The main thing is finding the time to sit down and write. You have to make the time.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

I think all women want to feel sexy and confident yet comfortable at the same time in what they wear.

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

The military taught me discipline, how to problem solve, teamwork and loyalty, a perfect parallel to the kitchen. If we could take that and bottle it, it would be a amazing thing.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.