Success did not thrill him in the least. He regarded a success merely as a convenient platform from which to plan a further advance. - Nevil Shute

He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.

Environment has its effect on everybody, and for a time it had a numbing effect on him, preventing him from thinking clearly.

If you're going to make your life in a new country you should go before you're twenty-five. After that you start to get associations, little grooves and anchors, that make it difficult to change.