“I may be down, but never out. An infantry officer can do anything.”

“Infantry, which means killing on foot and doesn’t have anything to do with children.”

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”

“I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”

“A man may be down, but he is never out.”

“Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.”

“I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding "What is today's message?" And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to "thought for the day."”

“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”

“As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.”

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”