“People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.”

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

“If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.”

“War teaches us honesty. Honesty with ourselves. For war is a merciless debunker; it debunks great and small alike....When bombs are crashing and fires raging, people are exactly what they are -- nothing more, nothing less. At such times you have the sensation of standing morally naked in public, and you will never be able to forget it, try as hard as you may.”

“My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention....”

“If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.”

“Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.”