"I really wanted to retire and rest..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.”

“I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.”

“I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.”

“As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!”

“It is the duty of the writer to describe.”

“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”

“How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?”

“A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.”

“No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.”