Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

People imagine that Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin arrived in Yalta with a blank sheet of paper to decide the fate of Europe. Nothing could be further from the truth.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

Atomic energy might be as good as our present day explosives, but is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.