Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.