With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.

Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it.

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.

Hell is not to love anymore.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

Faces can lie. Backsides can't.