None but the brave deserve the fair.
Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.
Thank God I have done my duty.
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.
I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.
On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.
Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care. . . because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?
Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.