By this time I was no
longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the
limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost,
and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

[Dryden's long-form style of answering questions means] he's almost never invited on TV, ... He's the despair of every TV producer who's ever had him on. That's a high-class problem, because it also means he faces less scrutiny.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.