"You can divide my life into two."

"My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well."

"I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled."

"My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me."

"The primary factor in a successful attack is speed."

"I have been driven demented in my career."

"This is the war I fear."

"In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society."

"I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity."

"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."

"The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions."

"What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?"

"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."

"It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability."

"It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life."

"Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province."

"I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time."

"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."

"Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand."

"I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man."

"Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children."

"Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century."