„Everything is overshadowed by the impending trial of will-power which is developing in Europe. I think we shall have to choose in the next few weeks between war and shame, and I have very little doubt what the decision will be.“

— Winston S. Churchill

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„Owing to the neglect of our defences and the mishandling of the German problem in the last five years, we seem to be very near the bleak choice between War and Shame. My feel­ing is that we shall choose Shame, and then have War thrown in a lit­tle later on even more adverse terms than at present.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„I think that I have now said enough about the war, which is past now for over twenty-five years. I bow in reverence before the memory of the men who lost their lives in this war on both sides, and I think that we all hope that we never shall have such a war again.“
— Karl Dönitz
„Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.“
— Karen Blixen
„Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year.“
— Louise L. Hay
„If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.“
— Stanley Kubrick
„Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.“
— John C. Maxwell