"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
"It's no use saying, "We are doing our best."You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."